AlertSF

AlertSF will send tsunami alerts, severe weather/flooding notifications and post-disaster information to your registered wireless devices and email accounts. AlertSF lets one register work email, home email and cell phones. Also allowing you to choose multiple zip codes for to receive alerts for places you work, live and commonly play hang out.

If you live in SF it would be silly not to sign up. For those outside of SF you should suggest your local municipals look to AlertSF and 72hours.org as models for community emergency preparedness.

Pump-Kin!

I thought a few of the ladies might enjoy reading about 30 ways to eat a pumpkin. Note to the boys #30 is pumpkin beer :-)

Dreaming of dream homes

I'm feeling sick today and rather be hanging out at home instead of working. However work pays the bills and might let me afford a place like this someday:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/optimal_green_m_2.php

Generation Adventure

Trent has reanimated his blog Generation Adventure:
http://generation-adventure.blogspot.com/. Take a chance and check it out.

Lost

Many reviewers have been wondering if Lost would have the staying power for a third season. After seeing the third season opener I’m hooked, fish line and sinker.

Moots goes crazy for adventure specialist Mike Curiak

Trent was kind enough to send along this link. Half
way down the page is a bike with a integrated 1.5 liter fuel bottle top tube. Not a shabby idea for
500 mile solo Alaskan ride. For the rest of us, I wouldn’t mind seeing a top tube that held compressed air for refilling tires. Sure would make getting home on my epic 25 mile bike rides easier :-)

Is that a machete holster?

Emily has been kind enough to blog about my whole weekend. Take a read and add in buying some duct tape off of Amazon and a little climbing with Matty and Amber on Sunday.

Leatherman bits

Just received my Leatherman Leatherman bits
in the mail. Apparently I left them at Bill’s place in Truckee. I pretty happey to have these little handy suckers back. Pitcher of PBR for Bill.

Fatwa for Steve Emerson

This last Monday Emily and I decided to check out Steve Emerson California Common Wealth Club forum. Steve was full of gloom and doom for any relations between democratic nations and Islamic nations. Of course Steve has earned the privilege of death sentence fatwa. He had some relevant points such as picking a few fights around religious freedom, freedom of speech and how Islamic groups manage to silence the American media through PC correctness and even worse threats of violence. However he also supported many of the covert actions by the American government preventing those freedoms. Perhaps he’s too deep to give an impartial analysis, but even with his bent view there he has some very important insights into what is going on.

Be sure to check these wikipedia entries:
- Steve Emerson
- fatwa

Diesel Ranch Scooter

I love this beyond dorky ranch motorcycle. It's like a pug dog, so ugly you just have to love it. Of course there isn't much ranch work to be done around my apartment, but I can dream right? Pitcher of PBR to ecorider.

Spinach Mayhem

Just in case you haven’t had enough spinach mayhem, you should check one of my favorite slate columns the explainer: Victual Ablutions

360 Plug

Someday I would like to build/refurbish a house and these would have to be the outlets I would want: http://www.360electrical.com/

Things to Do with Beer Bottles

This book looks to be lame enough to be transcend to being cool:
Stolen Snapshots Presents: Things to Do with Beer Bottles

T.M.X. Elmo

I've always liked tickle me Elmo and now the special 10 year version is even more fun:

cnn covers more

Penny Alcohol Backpacking Stove

I finally got around to building this beer can stove tonight. While it was fun, I doubt I would actually use it for backpacking. A white gas stove is worth all the extra weight and Esbit is lighter. However it’s not often you get to justify playing with fire and suggest building one for the fun of it anyway.


-rob

Crazy Iceberg

Emily just sent me this link: http://www.crazyshark.com/product_info.php?products_id=11&cPath=2

Anyone with a pool big enough please step forward :-)

Three runs

I ran in three of our teams winning runs. It was a pretty sweet. A pitcher of PBR for me :-)

Photographers Projecting Presumptions

Being a photographer I found this interesting article about a photographer callously misslabling labeling the action in the picture.

Good!

A new upstart magazine called Good looks to be quite interesting. They currently have the following mission statement on listed on the GoodMagazine home page: "Our mission is to simulate a culture of good by creating dialog around thing that matter." I find the website quite entrapping. Good currently has an article about folks painting abandoned homes in bright orange, incidentally before they get demolished. A grand idea by the mysterious vandals. Almost everyone involved with the magazine has earned a pitcher of PBR.

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Can Diversion Safe

If I had jewels and cash to hide - this would have to be the way:
PBR Safe